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Encourage Others to Conserve
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Share information about recycling and energy conservation with your friends, neighbors and co-workers, and take opportunities to encourage public officials to establish programs and policies that are good for the environment.
2. Choose the correct answer:
1. The author believes that
a) Burning fossil fuels such as natural gas, coal, oil and gasoline raises the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
b) carbon dioxide is not a significant contributor to the greenhouse effect and global warming.
c) we have to use gas and water as much as we need
2. Buying products with minimal packaging (including the economy size when that makes sense for you)
a) will save you a lot of money
b) will help to reduce waste
c) will help you to keep your house clean
3. Adding insulation to your walls and attic, and installing weather stripping or caulking around doors and windows can lower your heating costs:
a) more than 30 percent
b) more than 25 percent
c) more than 50 percent
4. Less driving means:
a) fewer emissions.
b) saving money
c) good health and good mood.
5. Wash your clothes
a) in warm or cold water to reduce your use of hot water and the energy required to produce it.
b) only in the washing machine
c) only one in a month
6. A single tree will absorb approximately
a) two tones of carbon dioxide during one year
b) one tone of carbon dioxide during one month
c) one tone of carbon dioxide during its lifetime.
Write the questions to the text and discuss it in the class.
Match a new word with its definition.
| 1. the greenhouse effect | 1. intended to be used only once and then thrown away |
| 2. To reduce | to take something in, especially gradually |
| 3. disposable | 3. to make (something) less in size, amount, degree, importance, or price |
| 4. carpooling | 4. the process by which a plant uses energy from the light of the sun to produce its own food from water and carbon dioxide |
| 5. photosynthesis | 5. the gas produced when animal or vegetable matter is burned, or when animals breathe out. |
| 6. carbon dioxide | 6. an arrangement in which a group of people take turns driving each other or their children to and from work or school |
| 7. to absorb | 7. to collect and treat rubbish in order to produce useful materials which can be used again |
| 8.recycle | 8. the gradual warming of the Earth's surface caused by an increase in pollution and gases in the air |
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6. Write your ides and suggestions about what you can do to reduce global warming: